Emma Aubin-Boltanski
Emma Aubin-Boltanski is a social anthropologist, senior researcher at the CNRS. She specializes in women and religious issues in the Middle-East. In 2007, she published her PhD dissertation on two Muslim pilgrimages in Palestine (West-Bank). Since 2008, she has been focusing her research on visionary experiences and Virgin Mary apparitions in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. On that subject, she directed a film (Catherine Body of the Passion (57’)) and published a recent book (Le corps de la Passion. Experiences religieuses et politiques d’une mystique au Liban (Ed. EHESS, 2018)). From 2009 to 2013, she led a research program founded by the National Research Agency (ANR) on “Eschatological expectations in the contemporary world”. Since February 2018, she is in charge at Ifpo of developing a new research program founded by the ANR entitled “From revolt to War in Syria: conflict, displacements, uncertainties”? In the frame of this collective research program, she investigates the different forms of social, political and religious engagement of Syrian women since 2011 by following two distinct and opposing Sunni religious groups in their stance on the regime. One of these two groups (the Akramiyyin) developped its activities in Daraya from 2003 until the quasi-complete evacuation and destruction of the city in September 2012.
